My favorite post of the week. The author deals with a topic I see people struggling with all the time: how to learn new skills when you already have a full-time job. It has a bunch of great lines that I absolutely agree with:

The best way to learn a new skill is using it to solve problems.

It doesn’t take much knowledge to achieve useful results

My most-often given advice to folks looking to transition into a career in data is to find opportunities to deploy new skills at their current jobs. You can almost always find these opportunities if you look.